Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Elective Surgical Pathway
This is an exciting time to join our Elective Surgical Admissions team as we expand Dedicated Ward Pharmacy (DWP) across the entire trust. Your role will be pivotal in enhancing elective patient care throughout their pre-operative journey, working in both the Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic (POAC) and our Main Theatres Admission Unit (MTAU), where we have an established pharmacist and Medicines Management Team (MMT).
You'll receive full support from our Advanced Pharmacists for MTAU and POAC to ensure you can make a meaningful impact.
Main Duties of the Job
You will be an integral part of the pharmacy team responsible for the pharmaceutical care of elective patients during their entire perioperative journey. This includes:
* Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic (POAC): Collaborating with anaesthetists, surgeons, and other MDT members to optimise pharmaceutical management.
* Main Theatres Admission Unit (MTAU): Assessing patients on the day of surgery and ensuring they receive the appropriate pharmaceutical care.
* Surgical Wards: Following up with patients post-surgery, providing pharmacy support across all surgical wards, and contributing to care in our new Critical Care unit.
Your responsibilities will also extend to attending consultant-led ward rounds, including those by the Acute Pain Team and Nutrition Team, and offering advice and education to medical and nursing staff. You will play a key role in developing and implementing medicines management policies and procedures.
We are committed to your professional development, offering opportunities to further your clinical qualifications, including independent prescribing if needed. While this is a full-time position, we are open to considering part-time arrangements. Also, if you don't meet all the essential criteria for the Band 7 role this time, there may be an opportunity for a Band 6 to 7 progression post!
About Us
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
* Compassion
* Accountability
* Respect
* Integrity
* Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Job Responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the post include the following:
* Support the Advanced Clinical Pharmacists in POAC and MTAU and Principal Pharmacist, Surgery.
* Have a working knowledge of current perioperative practice and protocols related to medicines and how these relate to national and other guidance.
* Participate in the clinical/advisory Pharmacy Service, specifically to the POAC to MTAU.
* Support Surgical Services including providing pharmacy support to a named surgical directorate.
* Provide specialist pharmacy input into Theatre areas.
* Optimise medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence (where appropriately qualified and authorised via the Trust NMP register).
* Identify new opportunities for the development of Pharmacy Services, and assist in the preparation of business cases to support these developments.
* Support the training of all (medical, nursing and pharmacy) staff across the division.
* Identify and support the Cost Improvement Programme, and contribute to the Directorate Prescribing Reports, which monitor, analyse and report on medicine use and expenditure.
* Develop/review relevant Trust Clinical Guidelines, PGDs etc.
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
* BPharm or MPharm degree
* Member of General Pharmaceutical Council
* Achieved (or working towards) postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent knowledge/experience)
Knowledge and Experience
* Post-registration clinical pharmacy experience within hospital, PCN, community including at least four of the following specialties: Medicine (or medical specialties), Care of the Older Person, Surgery (or surgical specialties), Paediatrics, Medicines Information, Oncology/Haematology, Aseptics (this would normally be achieved over at least a 2-3 year period).
* Teaching, supervising and training staff
* NHS arrangements, eg CCGs, NICE, CQC, Clinical Governance, PCNs, NHS Digital
Skills
* Computer skills, eg databases
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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